Ballroom Dance Clip Art
From LoveToKnow Dance
Dance studios, dancers, and teachers all use ballroom dance clip art from time to time. Whether you are making a program, a brochure, a newsletter, an invitation, or a business card, dance-related paper items look great when an image is added to them. Since dance is a visual art, brochures or business cards of dancers, and teachers, will look nicely illustrated if they include a picture. While it may be going overboard, depending on what type of document you are creating, to put actual pictures on your dance-related items, dance clip art adds a great visual without having to edit photos and get permission of the photographer (and those photographed) to use the picture.
Sources of Ballroom Dance Clip Art
One free clip art source with a good selection is the Free Clip Art Store, with a collection of ballroom dance pictures ranging from waltzing to swing dancing. The collection is a good sized one, given that the images are free of copyright; these go above and beyond the clip art that comes packaged with word processing software.
Another site offering a good selection of free dance images is Two Step Tidewater. Although the sample images shown on the webpage are small in size, there is a wide selection of different dance moves and dance genres represented in their collection, including a handful of ballroom dance clip art images.
Other free sources are the word processor that came with your computer, or Internet sites that offer a free image here and there. When all is said and done, most of the free sites offering clip art do not have a wide selection, and often make it difficult for browsers to find the actual free clip art that they advertise. The Free Clip Art Store is a good exception, offering several different images and making them easy to find.
If you are willing to pay for dance clip art images, there are several more online sources where you can find a single image that's perfect for your needs. For example, if you are making an important brochure or program and willing to spend $10 to $50 for a clip art dance image, check out ClipArtof.com's image of the dance lift made so famous by the finale of Dirty Dancing. RetroClipArt.com offers a handful of images at the low price of $8.95 per image, an affordable option if one of their images seems perfect to fit your needs.
Working with Clip Art
While some projects call for full photographic images, other projects offer the perfect opportunity to use a good clip art image. If you are making something on paper where the images should not interfere with the information that is given, clip art is a better option than an actual photographic image. Clip art accentuates the topic of the brochure, business card, or program, instead of drawing attention away from it. A good clip art image will make the person who sees your paper project with an image on it feel a little bit more that the topic of dance is clear. In a rack full of brochures, a clip art image of a dancer at the top of your brochure allows everyone to see that your brochure has something to do with dance before the brochure is picked up and looked at, or read, by somebody looking at the brochures.
Clip art can make your paper projects stand out and get people to pick them up and read them, without offering an overload of information the way that a professional picture can do, depending on the type of project you are working on.
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